Monday, August 22, 2016

Is following the crowd the thing you really want ?

This night (as usually during nights), I was thinking
carefully about my thoughts and I came to the conclusion that I may repeat
myself from time to time. Please, forgive me if you ever noticed that but
sometimes I cant control my “powerful thoughts”. First I do not want to sound
as a crazy feminist, who I am not. Second, I have this need inside me to spread
more wisdom, so not to give life advices but open people eyes on things they are too
much attached to or they too scared to leave their past behind them. In the
last post I was writing about this ‘trend’ of(not) being in a relationship, but today I would like to add something
more to that.

Especially in the young age, in which I am now 22-30 years
old, people tend to settle down, finish their studies, find a perfect matching
job, start earning money in order to save for their future, which brings most
of the time family. We are born with an idea to complete this scheme and be
happy. But what happens, when we realize that after completing this scheme we
are not happy enough? What if we want something else from life? What if we have
different role to play in our life? I think everyone has this moment in the
middle of studies that we have to figure out what kind of internship we want to
do, where, how, now? What if we just would like to be extraordinary and do not
follow the crowd? I am not saying that ‘ following the crowd’ is a bad thing.
In my opinion, Following the crowd means that we do what is a ‘good thing’ to
do... like again, 1. Completing studies, find a good job, find a good husband
and have a family. Most of women just dream about it but I am not this kind of
person.

It seems like this summer was one of my pre-last student
summers in my life. That is why I was thinking what I will expect from the next
summer, last 2 months of dolce far niente in my life. Travel the world? Spend
some time with family? Volunteering?

I don’t know but for sure I will have to do something, which
I will remember till the rest of my life, like going to India to monastery and
a silent weeks.

Why did I bring up this summer example? Because this is the
best example of being pushed to do something “ extraordinary” in our lives..
Knowing, that it will be probably your last student summer, what would you do? Probably
half of you would say“ go to Ibiza and party all weeks long”, another half
would say “ I don’t have a plan and any willing to think what will happen in
one year”.

Nowadays, people follow the crowd, however they still think
that they do something extraordinary and they are unique. People still want to
believe in eternal happiness, which always includes money, as everyone wants to
get rich, have a family and just an amazing life. But the question now is,

A R EW ER E A D YF O RAC H A N G E ?

In order to change our life…?

With all that plans we make, do we realize that in order to
change something in our life, we have to get rid of the past? Or is the past
creating the future?

Again, coming back to my last post. People are very easily
attached to another person, which makes it almost impossible to leave, change
and forget. But why would we hang on someone, who does not appreciate us? Why
do we always need to relay on someone, in any terms( friendship, partnership) ?
Why cant we think that everything we do, all the choices we make are only
depend on us? I said before that we became very selfish and we stopped caring
about the other person, but.. why not in this topic? Why cant we leave the
past, face it and agree that we do not own anything anyone? That is okay to
leave and be by our own !? If we do not like it, we can just leave, close one
chapter in order to open a new one? Believe me, I know it hurts very much but
by only non stop trying we become the best of ourselves.

As talking about following the crowd, it always scary me
when I see unhappy couples, who are together because they share past, moments,
its too difficult to break such an ‘amazing’ relation and in older age-
children. But the question is, Who are you living for? You have one life, which
you have to use and try everything in order to not regret anything. Why would
you be so dependent on someone? Why can’t we create a better world by doing
good and share good with only the closest relatives and friends? Why is it so
hard for us to feel lonely for a bit? It is at the beginning, but then we
realize that it actually made us stronger.

I was wondering for the last 2 years, when I got out from
this teenage stage

“why don’t I have a bf ?” what is wrong with me?

Then during my internship I met a very old Polish friend
with who I went on a party. Of course alcohol sometimes does not help but in
this time, it actually broaden my mind. I asked him this question, tipsy, in a
party mood and I did not expect any real answer. Nevertheless we started to
talk and I will always remember what he said. Please, allow me to quote him

“ Natalia, when I see you, I see such a strong woman, such a
strong personality that I am not sure who is able to handle it(unconsciously). Hearing your life story from
the moment you introduce yourself, that you are a world citizen who has been
raised abroad. You left to Colombia by yourself when you were 15, when your
peers are probably having their first beer in their life but you were “fighting”
for life. To be honest, I am not sure who is able to handle that positivity and
confidence. But when I see you later, I talk to you, you are the most fragile
person I know”

After 10 months of digesting this conversation with my
friend I came to the conclusion that everyone has its own mission in life.Someone is born to make people happy by
selling ice creams, someone is born to be a CEO of a big company like Apple, so
I can now use my Mac to write this post, and other people, and I feel like I
belong to that group is born to open some people eyes on reality. I am not
writing anything you do not know, but I am writing something to remind you
about that, which you may forget in your busy life.